let's get one thing straight very few design resource websites are actually giving you stuff
for free and i find it incredibly frustrating when i see certain posts certain designers certain
videos promising you free things like fonts or graphics whatnot which you want to use in your
design projects right so i see these lists and then what do i do i go out of my way and do my
own research only to realize that most of these promised free to use assets come with certain
conditions like if a design asset is free to download but you must attribute the original
creator that's not really free for me if a website says their stuff is free but only for personal use
again that's not free if a website wants you to register or sign up for their newsletter
in order to get some freebies resulting you being bombarded with emails every other day
listen that can be a compromise but let's be honest that's not free either
so for my upcoming list of design resources i only included stuff that is a hundred percent copyright
free graphic design assets which you can actually use in your projects without legal consequences
yeah now we can begin
now you guys welcome back to our channel the number one place for people who love design art
and all things creative you are watching D+B's channel my name is Laszlo and i do graphics and
illustration this video is a compiled list of websites and resources that are a hundred
percent free to use for graphic design work let's jump straight in website number one is graphic
burger graphic burger is an all-around design resource website where you can find free icons
free mock-ups textures and even website templates as you can see it really does what it says on the
tin you click on a freebie there is a big download button here which links to the zipped file
here you can double check the license if you want to see free for personal and commercial use
that's what you want okay let's open up the actual illustrator file yeah okay it's all nicely layered
everything has its own artboard quite good quality design work considering it was free
the website itself is very easy to navigate it may not be the best looking website i mean they
do have quite a bit of banner ads here and there but hey they gonna make money somehow i guess
personally i only use this website to find good photoshop mock-ups which in my experience can
be quite painful to find especially for free most free mock-ups are awful let's be honest but what
these guys have is a decent enough collection okay website number *two* is pexels now pexels
is one of those image and video resourcing websites where you can download stuff for free
there are a couple good websites which i also like to use in this area unsplash is really good for
example or pixabay but lately i've been finding myself going back to pexel's library more and more
their content library is not huge in comparison to some other sites but in return the quality of
imagery we'll find here is surprisingly high in my opinion especially if you are on the lookout
for free video clips again the scarcity of content does mean that they might not have
exactly what you're looking for so sometimes you need to get really creative with your keywords
while looking through the content but again what they do have is very solid pictures and videos
and also i think it's worth mentioning that the actual website itself looks and feels
quite nice which let's be honest is a rarity when it comes to these freebie websites by the
way just so you know none of these brands and websites are paying me to talk about them which
means i get to say whatever the heck i want and i will be brutally honest i can promise you that
okay design resource number three is iconmonstr obviously as a brand and graphic designer i do
have a very DIY approach when it comes to building little graphics and icons but every now and then
you might find yourself needing some very basic simple icons that you don't have the
time or the affinity to design yourself that's when a site like icon monster comes into play
this is what it looks like it's very simple very clean which i quite like actually this is the
search bar let's look for something simple like i don't know an icon of an ice cream for example
i think it's really nice that you can choose here what format you want your icon to download as
from these very clear options here photoshop psd, png or svg here's the license you need to
tick before downloading again i would always open this up and check if it's really free
yep the word 'comercial' is here ideal you download and pop it into illustrator happy days
again most of these icons are super simple which i trust most of you guys who are watching these
videos could be able to design yourselves if you really needed to but every now and then it's just
nice to download stuff quickly for free isn't it now the fourth thing i want to talk about is this
app called what the font this is effectively a font identifier it is not a website per se
it is a function that is baked into this other website called myfonts.com which is an online
store selling fonts i gotta say the desktop version i never really use but they got this app
which i really like the way it works is it uses your phone's camera so if you take a photo of a
piece of writing and then select the bit you want to identify it gives you some results of what the
font possibly could be giving you a good bunch of fonts similar to the one you have just snapped it
also has the ability to take you to the selected font so you can buy it if you want obviously from
myfonts.com it's not always accurate and it's a little clumsy looking i admit but i do find it
super useful that i could be just out and about and suddenly in my local area i see some good
signage or a restaurant menu and i really like the font which i can just quickly snap with this app
amazing and now that we are at fonts i want to make a somewhat underwhelming fifth point about
where to get good fonts from now i have been doing graphic design work for a while now and believe me
when i say i have put hours and hours AND HOURS into finding good free fonts for commercial use
and never have i ever came across with a website that is better than google fonts library
when it comes to fonts generally speaking you do get what you pay for so most free fonts which come
with a commercial use tend to be of lesser quality than its paid counterparts there are some websites
out there like dafont.com or fontsquirrel l which do have some good options if you look
hard enough but for me often times that ends up in a needle in a haystack kind of situation
there are lots of new cool flashy looking websites out there which are promising you free fonts but
oftentimes the case is those fonts are only free for personal use which means you can't actually
use them in real projects useless in other words now just as a side note i just want to say that if
you do have the means you should buy fonts because font designers and typographers the people who put
the hard work in they do deserve all the praise designing a full set of fonts with the perfect
kerning with the perfect little ligatures making sure that every character is as neat and perfect
as it possibly can be often times also offering different glyphs and variations of certain letters
is no easy feat it is back-breaking work and these guys' contribution to the design community
shouldn't really go unpaid because what they are doing is amazing okay side note over so yeah 9 out
of 10 times i always direct people to google fonts if they want some fonts for free and of
course adobe has its own library for fonts as well which you can use for projects given that you have
an adobe suite subscription which is not free not at all but again that's just my experience i mean
if any of you out there know of a gold mine of a website where you can actually download
good quality 100 free to use fonts feel free to leave a link down in the comments because i would
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